Category: First Amendment

Feelings… Nothing More than Feelings

REMOVED AGAIN: Our Executive Director @iancesca1776 was informed he needed to leave the committee room because his firearm pin made others feel unsafe. [More]

Those in power can use that excuse to trample a lot of rights– like you see being done here.

To paraphrase Rhett Butler, they ought to be made to feel unsafe, and often, and by someone who knows how.

A Temporary Reprieve

New York has agreed to drop a requirement that applicants for concealed carry gun permits list their former and current social media accounts so officials can confirm their “character.” [More]

For now.

Let communist Democrats keep gaining power there, and “gun permits” and “social media” won’t even be permitted memories, let alone issues for proletariat consensus.

We’re the Only Ones Memephobic Enough

Michigan Sheriff Michael J. Bouchard … arrested a man who posted a meme about him and the sheriff said the man was “trying to threaten and intimidate” with the meme. He then stated the 1st Amendment makes people “feel empowered, emboldened, and safe,” so he had to teach the public a lesson. [Watch]

Streisand Effect, anyone…?

LaLaLa…He can’t HEAR you…

Related UPDATE

Fenix Ammunition tells the Sheriff what protects the First Amendment.

You’d think with that NRA endorsement he’d lnow.

[Via WiscoDave]

Stopping the Signal

That’s gotta be a First Amendment “right to petition” violation. Not that their minds aren’t already made up and the hearings aren’t anything but theatrics to make it look like they’re responsibly deliberating.

I wonder if Harmeet would agree…

[Via Jess]

Stopping the Signal

California Bill Would Force 3D Printers to Block Gun Files With State-Approved Detection Technology [More]

And I can see the bastards pulling a DeStefano on an out-of-state supplier who won’t comply. (Looks like they gave up on trying to raise funds because no one wanted to help plant the seed, water the crop, harvest the grain, mill the flour, and bake the bread.)

I’m wondering if the “unfunded mandate” used in Printz to invalidate Brady Law requirements might be applicable in fighting this, or is that just an escape clause for public entities against the feds?

The Bully Pulpit

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That seems… illegal.

Yes, I know she had another account tied in with her office, but as the linked article notes:

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that public officials who post about topics relating to their work on their personal social media accounts are acting on behalf of the government, and therefore can be held liable for violating the First Amendment when they block their critics, only when they have the power to speak on behalf of the state and are actually exercising that power.

She always was good at “allegedly” gaming the system. Why that can’t be nailed down by a seemingly omnipotent fedgov is a mystery to me.

Might be worth some pushback…

Big Brother is Watching You

California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves [More]

That report on you…

I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen legislation that abrogates so many of the amendments in the Bill of Rights in one edict.

But…but…but it’s for the greater good…

[Via TactiCool Memes]

Disparaging Armed Citizens Undermines Trump Administration’s Credibility

Maybe it’s time to stop dousing the fire in gun owner bellies, especially with top administration officials making inane comments that spit in the faces of Second Amendment activists — the very people Republicans need to win. [More]

In what reality is making core constituents feel like they’re being used smart politics?

Stopping the Signal

New York’s bill proposes requiring all 3D printers sold in the state to include “blocking technology” software that scans every design file for firearm blueprints and prevents printing of flagged gun parts. [More]

Same observation I made here…

[Via WiscoDave]

Making Lemonade Out of Lemons

Just before Christmas, the even more radical California State Bar imperiously advised the state’s 200,000 lawyers “Read it, declare it, mean it.” That ominous warning introduced the California Supreme Court’s Orwellian Rule 9.7 which requires every lawyer to attest that: “As an officer of the court, I will strive to conduct myself at all times with dignity, courtesy and integrity.” The license of any lawyer who fails or refuses to acquiesce will be invalidated, and any lawyer who violates the oath is subject to “appropriate fees and penalties” to be set by the Bar. [More]

“…dignity, courtesy and integrity”?

So… we can report Eric Swalwell…?

[Via Michael G]

What Can Brown Do to You?

Washington State AG Warns Citizen Journalists to Stop Investigating Somali Daycares or Face Potential Hate Crime Charges [More]

Only “Authorized Journalists” are allowed to do that!

Which side are the fascists, again…?

[Via Michael G]

Meanwhile, Across the Pond

In these documents, in particular the fining decision issued on Monday, October 13th, 2025, the UK’s Internet regulator claims that its powers have supremacy over the U.S. Constitution, including the First Amendment, and U.S. law for U.S. companies and citizens engaged in constitutionally protected speech and conduct occurring exclusively on U.S. soil. [More]

I note all the extortion attempts are signed “Yours faithfully, Ofcom Enforcement,” meaning “Yours facelessly,” with the indignant martinet who has spent untold hours compiling “hamster bedding” failing to see how personally cowardly, impotent and absurd he is.

I wonder, if the client ever travels within UK jurisdiction, if he’d be subject to arrest and prosecution, and if the U.S. State Department would come to his defense.

I also wonder how I can get on the list, maybe by inviting anyone from the UK to leave a forbidden comment here…

[Via Michael G]